Recent content by dab123

You just sit visibly on the platform, and wave your arm for them to stop. That's it! Just keep a safe distance from the edge, because the train creeps up on you real fast. There is usually a broad yellow safety band, stay outside of that.

For a while, since COVID, the Northeast Regional Train #171 did not stop at L'Enfant Plaza, which is an unofficial stop. Although there were about a dozen people boarding pre-COVID, they seem to have stopped coming, either because they no longer commute or because they think the train will not...

L'Enfant Plaza is totally working as a flag stop! Both on the 176 and the 171. For the 171, you need to flag the train, but it has been stopping for the last month even when I am the only one on the platform. I wish more people would come back to the station, as I feel bad stopping an entire...

And to the original question: yes, it is a flag stop. If you call the Amtrak number, they don't even know about it and you can't book a ticket either to or from it. But it used to work, you could count on being picked up there by the southbound 171.

So, there is a sign at L'Enfant saying that flag stop has been discontinued since July 2020 to maintain social distancing. Not sure how it achieves that--in fact it's the opposite. It's an open air station that is the most secure. If I don't board there, I have to wait for some time in Union...